Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-10-19
ESSENTIALS or POPULAR GOVERN

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popular government in these words.
May this nation, under thy overTuiirtg
providence, be model to III nations IN up
holding liberty without license and in WELD
ing authority without cespotism. s. !
Liberty without license is es-
sential to the preservation Of popular
institutions. Liberty must be regula-
fed by law---indeed tneret can be no
liberty without law. Those mhoolex-
pect to widen and broaden liberty by
breaking over all ]egalrestraints- who
seek liberty outside tho pale OF the
law--are unfit to be called American
citizens. No ASA ult upon the rights Of
property, upon any pretensey can be
justified under a form of government
where the people are the source of
power, either in the name of morality
0 n the pretended interest of labor.
II popular institutions in this country
are to survive another century, the
progress OF the anarchic spirit must
be suppressed, the socialistic
tendency must be met. Social
ism is largely the outgrowth of discon-
tent which has been fomented by agi-
tators from Europe. These men have
not studied the American system of
government. They do not know its
value. They have no conception of
the power of the ballot when rightly
thrown. They come here with the
same notions OF government imbibed
in their native land There the re-
straint of law is irksome because it
bears unequaliy upon society. They
bring 10 this country the same hatred
OF legal restraints that they felt be-
yond the Atlantic. To the American
citizen law means protection, safety
and the orderly administration of JUS
tice. 10 the socialist law means OPP
preston, and license means liberty.
1t is singular fact that Socialism had
its birth in Germany and that nearly
all the Socialistic leaders are
German irfidels. They refuse to rec
ognize any authority, divine or human.
Immigrants who are not well dis
posed toward American institutions
should net be permitted to become citl-
zens. Those who are 50 disposed, from
whatever country, will find here well
come to all the rights of citizenship.
The American people have no inclina-
ton to refuse to persons of foreign birth
who ask to become citizens in the true
sense, any right which they themselves
enjoy. It is, however, time that dis
elimination in granting citizenship
were made. Such only who, frsm
patriotic motive ask to be admitted to
its rights and privileges, with a pur-
pose OF yielding a cheerful obedience
to law, should be naturalized. The
Socialist and the Anarchist, who come
to SOW the seed of q vicious and dan
gerous theory should not only be ex-
cluded from the rights of citizenship,
but should be driven out of the country.
Those who have, either by birth, or by
naturalization become citizens and have
counseled defiance to the law should be
disqualified as citizens. Instead of the
political motto: Americans for native
Americans, 'as was proposed by the Ma
tive American Convention, winch re-
Gently gave birth to a new party, let us
adopt as our shibboleth, america for
all lawabiding and order loving people.
of whatever nationality or religious
persuasion"
1t is not a pleasant reflection that in
the metropolis of the Union, the finan-
cial center of this great country, an i'm
mense assemblage can be gathered to-
gether to denounce the judgment of the
highest court of state and that such
denunclation was greeted with shouts
OF approval by men who, if they are
not American citizens, are enjoying the
protection of American laws. 1t is
proof of the leniency of the law that a
non-citizen, who but lately wore the
garb of convict, should be unmoiest-
ed while making an incendiary speech.
We cling, and rightfully, to the free
dom of discussion; but the difference
between temperate criticism and incit-
ing to lawlessness must be observed.
Free speech is boon which will not
be surrendered, but as the State pro-
tects the character of the individual
from ibelous publication. so it should
protect society from incendiary
public utterances. The exercise
of this authority is not
despotic. Liberty without license;
authority without despotism, are the
essentials of popular government.
Fanny Kembie at Eighty-six.
New York Correspondent Boston